[Leica] IMG: One More from Film Found in in R2a

[Jim Nichols]

Hi Douglas,

Thanks for the kind words.  Yes, the DC-3 sits on the ramp at the local 
airport.  In the terminal, there is a ring-bound booklet describing this 
airplane's history.  I can't recall many of the details, but it was a 
luxury transport in its early days, then made Hollywood movies, and 
ended up hauling skydivers.  They were grand old machines.  I got a 
flight in the USAF version in the early 1950s.  Sorry to hear about your 
uncle.  I lost a few friends to such mishaps, as well.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/15/2015 5:17 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Lovely shot of a wonderful plane. Was it taken at Tullahoma? My 
> parents flew to the UK in one for their honeymoon back in 1947, and my 
> mother was so airsick that she didn't fly again for another sixty years!
>
> Mind you, flying was not the done thing in her family as her brother - 
> a student pilot in the Irish Air Corps - had killed himself in a Miles 
> Magister by not giving himself enough space when doing a loop the 
> loop. The plane's left wing clipped the branch of a tree and that was it.
>
> The next time, she flew on an Airbus/Boeing and was so blown away by 
> the experience that she couldn't wait to go on another trip
>
> Douglas
>
>
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> Subject: [Leica] IMG: One More from Film Found in in R2a
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>> Here is one more image from the roll of BW400CN found in my Bessa 
>> R2a. This DC-3 was hauling skydivers when it lost an engine, and sits 
>> as a monument to the past.  It was deemed too expensive to restore it 
>> to flying status.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/1+_2_-1FM_filtered.jpg.html
>>
>> Bessa R2a, lens not recorded.
>>
>> C & C welcomed.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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